Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products

During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

C++ is an insult to the human brain

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.